SUBNIL has launched its CONDOR 300 tube filler, with a capacity to produce up to 300 tubes/min. It fills viscous and semi-viscous product into tubes and closes it depending on the type of tube. Metal tubes are crimped whereas plastic & laminate tubes are sealed.

This is a linear chain model with all features as its current rotary machines like vertical
product dosing, bottom-up filling with shut-off
nozzle, tool-less changeover and
attractive options like multi-colour filling and
profiled seals.

The tubes have to be first manually
transferred from the tube box to the
cassette provided on the machine, which in
turn transfers them to a conveyor, which is
driven by servo. From the conveyor,multiple tubes are picked up a
servo-driven rotary pick-up device and loaded into the tube holders. The tubes then travel through the orientation, filling and closing stations before they are ejected out. The indexing as well as the main drive are also servo-driven.

The CONDOR 300 is linked & synchronised downstream with its sister company Vectacraft’s MERLIN 300XC cartoner and OSPREY 25 bundler, to form a line – the SL 300 tube packaging line. And the soon-to-be-added KESTREL 10s casepacker will make it a complete solution for tube packaging.

Once closed in the CONDOR 300, the tubes are ejected out of the tube filler onto a tubetransfer system which flap the tubes into the pockets of the product conveyor of the MERLIN 300XC horizontal cartoner. The cartoner is servo-driven, taking its position from feedback given by tube filler.

In the MERLIN 300XC, a pre-folded leaflet is first picked up by a rotary pick-up device and
fed to the pincer on the leaflet chain. Then, a carton is picked up from the stack by a servodriven
rotary pick-up device, pre-broken and then loaded into the carton chain. The tube is
inserted into the carton and it is closed on both sides either by tuck-in or gluing.

The cartons then travel from the outlet of the cartoner to the in-feed conveyor of the
OSPREY 25V bundler where they are first collated in a desired matrix. The required length
of BOPP film is then brought down by grippers; the bunch is wrapped with the same and pushed to the sealing station. Here,
first the main overlapped film is sealed
and subsequently the films on the
pack ends are sealed to create a
sturdy multipack.

The multipacks would then travel to
the KESTREL 10s casepacker where
they will be collated in a required
configuration and then pushed into a
case, which has been opened and
kept ready. The case will then be
taped or glue-sealed.

Hence, the first machine takes in the empty tubes (& the product to be filled) and the last
machine produces a packed case, ready to be shipped out of the customer’s factory.

Subnil has a single-minded commitment to excel in tube packaging lines and the new
addition to their range shows their dedication towards this resolve.

Progressing on the controls front, Subnil has worked with Elau servos for the very first time,
on the SL 300 line.

To view a video of the CONDOR 300 and the SL 300 tube packaging line, click here.